# Michael Cohen getting early release..............I sense a book coming. **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 28, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702 "2020-04-28T01:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/1 "2020-04-28T01:59:39Z")
> **[Trump Seethes About Michael Cohen’s Early Release and New Tell-All](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-seethes-michael-cohen-early-090025022.html)** > > In the midst of the global pandemic and a worsening economic crisis, one of the president’s most loathed turncoats got word that he’d receive an early release from prison to serve the rest of his sentence at home due to concerns over the coronavirus.... He has to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest, but he’s getting out. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/2 "2020-04-28T03:14:43Z")
He could dictate or scribble notes while jailed. Now he needn’t share a toilet with some more heavily-tattooed fellow. Lucky dog! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/3 "2020-04-28T03:42:05Z")
If there’s a book, I reckon it’ll take 5.5 months to write it and get it published. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/4 "2020-07-23T20:56:16Z")
Cohen is to be released into home confinement due to the fact that the reason he was recently taken back into custody was retaliatory political bullshit, according to the Judge. His book was scheduled to be released (no pun intended) prior to the upcoming election, and _someone_ wanted to prevent that from happening. > **[Judge finds Michael Cohen’s return to prison ‘retaliatory,’ orders his release](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-finds-michael-cohen-s-return-prison-retaliatory-orders-his-n1234712)** > > Cohen had refused to sign a form that would have barred him from speaking in public, including by publishing a book, as a condition of home confinement. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/5 "2020-07-24T02:10:24Z")
Cohen was Trump’s personal lawyer. What ethical constraints would be upon him regarding what he can divulge? And being the ethical paragon that he is anyway, would he pay any worry about that? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/6 "2020-07-24T02:12:15Z")
The fact that many people find Michael Cohen to be a rather unpleasant and unsympathetic person is obscuring another fact: that **Trump’s enablers attempted to flat-out violate Cohen’s right to First Amendment protections.** There are laws that keep certain types of convicted criminals from _profiting_ from their crimes by publishing books, _but no laws that keep them from publishing those books-_—because our Constitution protects freedom of speech. And Cohen, morally-unattractive as he may be, has the right to say what he wants to say—William Barr, Enemy of the Constitution, be damned. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/7 "2020-07-24T03:17:37Z")
I remember well the first time I ever encountered Michael Cohen. I was still watching CNN then, he was [in an interview with Brianna Keilar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Kb7IDmFF4) and obviously a Trump shill. He barked his infamous, “Says who?” at her in response to her question about Trump’s campaign team shakeup. A shudder went down my spine, I clocked the guy as a wannabe gangster. I despised him in that instant. After Trump “won,” I recall how sorrowful Cohen was at being left behind at Trump Tower. His loyalty was slavish, like a dog that never questions its place . I felt a little bit sorry for him. When Trump threw him under the bus over Stormy Daniels, Cohen’s hurt at the betrayal was borne of pure shock and akin to that of a scorned lover. He really believed the Trump loyalty shit was a two-way street. The scales fell and they fell hard. Michael Cohen is not a good person. But sometimes people experience an epiphany. I respect and believe the [testimony](https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-2d31-dc75-affd-bfb99a790001) he provided to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in February 2019. I don’t think he ever expected to become Trump’s unwitting fall guy. He is genuinely hurt and now highly motivated to speak his truth about his former boss. He knows _a lot_. Cohen is so dangerous to Trump. I am glad he flipped, and his is one book I will gladly, gratefully purchase. And I hope he has a well-trained security detail. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/8 "2020-07-24T19:36:16Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Cohen is to be released into home confinement due to the fact that the reason he was recently taken back into custody was retaliatory political bullshit, according to the Judge. His book was scheduled to be released (no pun intended) prior to the upcoming election, and _someone_ wanted to prevent that from happening. Can the judge’s order be appealed? SCOTUS cares about the first amendment only when it benefits Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/9 "2020-07-24T19:42:57Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Cohen was Trump’s personal lawyer. What ethical constraints would be upon him regarding what he can divulge? Violating attorney-client privilege will get you disbarred, but I think he probably already has been (or soon will be). Also, we have the crime-fraud exception: > The [attorney-client privilege](https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/attorney-client-privilege.html) protects most communications between clients and their lawyers. But, according to the crime-fraud exception to the privilege, a client’s communication to her attorney isn’t privileged if she made it with the intention of committing or covering up a crime or fraud. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/10 "2020-07-24T19:46:39Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Violating attorney-client privilege will get you disbarred, but I think he probably already has been (or soon will be). The [Wikipedia entry on him](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)#Conviction_for_perjury_in_congressional_testimony) indicates that he was, in fact, disbarred in February of 2019, on the heels of pleading guilty to committing perjury. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohen-getting-early-release-i-sense-a-book-coming/852702/11 "2020-07-25T01:08:05Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I respect and believe the [testimony](https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-2d31-dc75-affd-bfb99a790001) he provided to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in February 2019. I don’t think he ever expected to become Trump’s unwitting fall guy. He is genuinely hurt and now highly motivated to speak his truth about his former boss. He knows _a lot_ . > > Cohen is so dangerous to Trump. I am glad he flipped, and his is one book I will gladly, gratefully purchase. And I hope he has a well-trained security detail. Great points. I, too, will be a customer for that book. (And yes, let’s hope that Cohen is being attentive to his own security.)